Chandra has captured the X-ray light from three clusters of bright, young stars that lie in the direction of the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. Like many stars in the disk of the Galaxy, they are difficult, if not impossible, to see with an optical telescope because of interstellar dust that blocks the visible light. These images show the star cluster DB01-42 in X-ray (blue) and infrared (green) light. The multi-wavelength data provide evidence that DB 01-42 is located near the Galactic Center, about 26,000 light years from Earth. Scale:

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